“It’s not going to happen” won’t protect Jim Hoffa’s drivers from losing their jobs to self-driving vehicles and pretending Jerry Brown’s “temporary” tax hikes returned California to fiscal solvency is as delusional as the most vehement climate change or Holocaust denier trying to spin their way past empirical facts.

“It’s not going to happen” won’t protect Jim H’s drivers from losing their jobs to self-driving vehicles and pretending Jerry Brown’s “temporary” tax hikes returned California to fiscal solvency is as delusional as the most vehement climate change or Holocaust denier trying to spin their way past empirical facts.

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What do you think? Do you think h is gonna join your site and give you his take?

Forget all that talk about self-driving vehicles eventually wiping out four million professional driver jobs. Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., General President of the Teamsters, says it’s a lot of hype.

“You really want a giant 14-wheeler remotely? C’mon. It’s not going to happen. I think there’s a lot of hoopla about that. I see it on TV all the time. The media loves to talk about it. I don’t see it happening. I don’t intend to have someone else drive my car.”

Forget all that talk about self-driving vehicles eventually wiping out four million professional driver jobs. Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., General President of the Teamsters, says it’s a lot of hype.

“You really want a giant 14-wheeler remotely? C’mon. It’s not going to happen. I think there’s a lot of hoopla about that. I see it on TV all the time. The media loves to talk about it. I don’t see it happening. I don’t intend to have someone else drive my car.”

When the day comes when the feeders are loaded by robots and are driven on auto pilot and the trucks are loaded by robots into self driving package cars you DON"T want to be the first human in the chain of command in charge of all this BS. You will be blamed for everything. The days of blaming the drivers for not making the numbers will be over.

“It’s not going to happen” won’t protect Jim Hoffa’s drivers from losing their jobs to self-driving vehicles and pretending Jerry Brown’s “temporary” tax hikes returned California to fiscal solvency is as delusional as the most vehement climate change or Holocaust denier trying to spin their way past empirical facts.

I heard the interview while listening to a morning talkradio show. I had never heard Hoffa speak before. He seemed articulate, until the guy interviewing him asked him about self driving vehicles. To say it's never going to happen is ridiculous. That technology is here and doesn't necessarily replace a human job.

H is in a political position, and so he said what he believes his constituents want to hear. That's all. It doesn't have anything to do with whether there will really be a transformation of the industry or not.